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Women wear masks while waiting for bus during a smoggy day in Beijing, October 28, 2013. Reuters pic
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PARIS, May 15 Of the 100 cities worldwide most vulnerable to environmental hazards all but one are in Asia, and most are in India or China, according to a risk assessment published Thursday.
Across the globe, more than 400 large cities with a total population of 1.5 billion are at “high” or “extreme” risk due to some mixture of life-shortening pollution, dwindling water supplies, deadly heat waves, natural disasters and climate change, the report found.
The alarming rise of air pollution in India is not just bad for health, but it has severely impacted the profitability of businesses. The loss suffered by Indian businesses each year is equal to 40 per cent of the country’s outlay on managing the Covid-19 pandemic.
Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Tuesday said the city government will focus on public participation to reduce air pollution in the national capital. Pondering over environmental pollution in winter months when the AQI is severe is not a solution. We therefore, require your support. A plan is needed that can work through the year, Rai said on the second day of a round-table conference with experts. The government will make the fight against air pollution a mass movement, he added. While we have identified pollution hotspots, it is still challenging to measure the timing, rate, source and impact of pollution. The Delhi government is working to find appropriate tools to measure these indicators which would in turn help us devise the correct policy, Rai said.